Universal health coverage in the Philippines : progress on financial protection goals (English)

Providing protection against the financial risk of high out-of-pocket health spending is one of the main goals of the Philippines’ health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent (real) from 2000 to 2012, with the sharpest increases occurring in recent years. The main driver of health spending is medicines, accounting for almost two-thirds of total health spending, and as much as three-quarters...

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Bredenkamp,Caryn;

Buisman,Leander Robert;
Document Date
2015/05/06
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7258
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Philippines,
Region
East Asia and Pacific,
Disclosure Date
2015/05/06
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Universal health coverage in the Philippines : progress on financial protection goals
Keywords
Medicine

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Bredenkamp,Caryn; Buisman,Leander Robert.

Universal health coverage in the Philippines : progress on financial protection goals (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7258 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/610061468184429894

Universal health coverage in the Philippines : progress on financial protection goals (English)

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